You might also want to try and force UltraDMA mode5 (or the highest UltraDMA mode supported by your hardware) with "hdparm -X69 /dev/hda" combined with the "Multiple sector mode" (set with "hdparm -m 16 /dev/hda") that was suggested earlier.
No luck, thanks for the attempt though
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